A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
Contents:
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- GAY RIGHTS ARE ON THE MIDTERM BALLOT AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS OPN, SAYS NEW GLAAD AD
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
* gay rights vote *
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GAY RIGHTS ARE ON THE MIDTERM BALLOT AFTER CLARENCE THOMAS OPN, SAYS NEW GLAAD AD
GLAAD is out wh a new ad first shared wh The Hill that highlights how LGBTQ rights are on the ballot this year the midterm electns for the Hoe and Senate. “We all have to turn out to vote. It’s important for all fai,” Kent and Diego, a gay married uple wh two children, say… * gay rights vote *
Garcia, who was born Pe, won the Democratic primary June, and has a strong chance of beg elected wave of LGBTQ+ ndidat as Republins have phed, and passed, bills targetg gay and transgenr who support equal rights for LGBTQ+ people will have their work cut out if Republins do aim their fire at same-sex marriage. This week Texas Republins unveiled their 2022 party platform, which f homosexualy as an “abnormal liftyle choice” and says the party would “oppose all efforts to validate transgenr inty”’s a Republin mpaign that has amounted to an alarmg rise anti-trans and anti-gay speech over the past year, wh three hate-filled cints occurrg jt over the past March Ron DeSantis, the Florida ernor who is nsired a ontnner for the Republin party’s printial nomatn 2024, signed a ntroversial “don’t say gay” bill that prevents teachers om discsg sexual orientatn or genr inty public schools. This month DeSantis moved to ban transn re for transgenr youth, and this week suggted he may orr Florida’s child protective servic to vtigate parents who take their children to drag policians and rightwg media figur have spread li and misrmatn about gay and trans people attemptg to groom this climate, the supreme urt’s suggtn that the Obergefell se, which enshred the right to same-sex marriage, be revised, has advot for equal rights on edge.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
”Heather Mizr, who fac a Democratic primary July, would bee the first out LGBTQ+ member of Congrs om Maryland if she is elected to the ndidat, if succsful, would jo ne openly LGBTQ+ members of the Hoe and two senators, all of whom are Democrats, and uld bolster gay and trans rights at a time when they are unr severe threat. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.
Vcent to overturn anti-gay laws om the lonial era that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. Homosexualy ntu to be crimalized the former Brish lony after many hundreds of years, leavg LGBTQ dividuals wh ltle if any legal protectns while vlent crim were beg mted wh impuny, the report said. Standg crimal s on the island put nsensual gay sex the same tegory as crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt, although there have been no recent nvictns unr the law.